Tag Archives: HPC

Called M77232917, the number discovered by Jonathan Pace, a Fedex employee is not only the largest prime number existing, but it is also the 50th first_number of Mersenne, i. e. a prime number that has the form 2p-1. The number

On Monday, a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from the SpaceX leased shot at NASA to refuel the international station. In its multi-commodity Dragon module, including two Apollo 40 HPE supercomputers. The idea of sending computers that are powerful

Last June, the Top500 ranking revealed not only the most powerful supercomputer in the world was Chinese, but novelty, this machine is driven by 40.960 processors of Chinese design, ShenWei processors that deliver an output of 93 petaflops. If the

The United States has just place 4 Chinese research centres on their blacklist. Manufacturers of components dedicated to HPC now have ban on exporting their chips. The United States want to curb Chinese researchers whose supercomputers, like ours, are used

The LHC resumed service. After 2 years of work, the shots will be able to resume in the 27-km particle accelerator. After this update, the large Hadron Collider at CERN will be able to accelerate protons up to 13 KeV.

With a power of 2.3 petaflops, i.e. 2.3 million billion operations per second, the supercomputer Pangea was the most powerful supercomputer in the world operated by a private company. It is the Total french who offered this exceptional machine for

That is, with graphene, one of two major programmes for technological research funded by the European commission. Each has a funding of 1.2 billion euros of funding. An unprecedented effort for the Human Brain Project, extensive research program that aims

“”Every battle is won before that it begins” wrote Sun Tzu, a quote that the army wants to apply at the foot of the letter. To determine the best strategy before you fight a battle, the U.S. Army is very

Never the words ‘computer virus’ had as much sense that today ‘ hui. Oxford researchers come to take a new step in the simulation of life. They have created a computer model of the virus of influenza, or rather an

Much has already been written on the project of quantum computer, a computer ideal for NSA since theoretically it could instantly decrypt any encrypted message. In addition to this long-term research project, the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) leads